Defending literature in early modern England Renaissance literary theory in social context
Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This book, first published in 2000, analyses Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on con...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2000
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
37 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : "aut prodesse ... aut delectare"
- Recreating reading : Elyot's Boke named the governour
- Heroic diversions : Sidney's Defence of poetry
- A "gentle discipline" : Spenser's Faerie Queene
- Epilogue : from text to work?